Posted by: threadtogether on: June 11, 2011
Hello Friends – Well, I’m traveling these two weeks and here I am away from my family, and my sewing machine … what to do? I’ve borrowed a friend’s machine, brought some pre-cut blocks to sew up and can’t wait to post them for you to see how I spent my weekend! Sending out love [...]
Posted by: threadtogether on: May 7, 2011
My husband loves to make us green smoothies and do other potentially messy things in the kitchen. He used to wear a generic apron. How can this be with a wife who loves to sew? Because he loves the outdoors, bears and eagles, I came up with this heavy canvas stripe fabric apron with bear [...]
Posted by: threadtogether on: May 7, 2011
OK, I absolutely know that it is 6 days after Easter and that MDFA is out of town right now. But that won’t stop me from dropping it off at her house to surprise her when she gets back, along with a NEW COPY of Mix and Match Quilt Blocks. It’s the rockin’ book that MDFA [...]
Posted by: threadtogether on: May 7, 2011
Yes, I know there were no blogs forever and now it’s like a flood. My day job consumes me most of the time and I only have time for sewing or quilting late at night or on the weekend inbetween gardening. This was the first quilt block I ever made for someone else. It was [...]
Posted by: threadtogether on: May 7, 2011
Another quilt block for my long-distance quilting bee. This quilter’s theme is picnic and blue. The name of this traditional quilting block is Navajo. The center looks kind of picnic-ee (doesn’t it?) It took some time to do those little bitty triangles but it was fun! I can’t wait to see the finished quilt!
Posted by: threadtogether on: March 14, 2011
Well, how did I come up with that? It just jumped out of my mouth. And now that I’ve ‘percolated’ on it, I find that the meanings are endless. You know the whole Drum-Circle thing? As we drum we are one? Well, I feel the same way about needle-craft. Women (and some men) have been [...]
Posted by: threadtogether on: March 12, 2011
My dear Friend A** (MDFA) has totally hooked me on quilting. Yes, I love fabric, sewing, knitting, weaving and stitchery of all kinds. So it was a natural leap. However, I had previously thought, “what’s the big deal here?” Now I’m thinking, “wow, I could get totally obsessed with this!” So MDFA has been nudging me [...]
